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LIST  OF  CLASSICS 
RECOMMENDED  TO  MAJOR 
STUDENTS  IN  ENGLISH 


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LIST  OF  CLASSICS 
RECOMMENDED  TO  MAJOR 
STUDENTS  IN  ENGLISH' 


I.  THE  MIDDLE  AGES 

A.  — English  Literature^ 

Anglo-Saxon  Period:  Beozvulf. 

Middle  English  Period:  Chaucer’s  Canterbury  Tales  and  Troilus 
and  Cressida, 

Gazvain  and  the  Green  Knight. 

Ballads. 

Malory’s  Morte  Darthur  (complete  in  two  volumes  in  Cam- 
elot  Series). 

B.  — Foreign  Literature* 

Oriental:  Arabian  Nights. 

French:  Song  of  Roland  (translated  by  A.  W.  Way,  Cambridge, 

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Translations  of  Arthurian  romances  in  Newell’s  King  Ar¬ 
thur  and  the  Round  Table. 


^For  a  famous  definition  of  the  term  classic  see  Sainte-Beuve’s  essay,  “What  is  a  Classic?” 
Remembering  the  close  connection  between  English  history,  the  English  language,  and  Eng¬ 
lish  literature,  students  should  have  at  hand  for  purposes  of  reference  and  supplementary  reading 
such  well-known  books  as; 

Green’s  Shorter  History  of  the  English  People. 

Emerson’s  History  of  the  English  Language 

Greenough  and  Kittredge’s  Words  and  their  Ways  in  English  Speech. 

Furthermore,  all  students  should  acquaint  themselves  with: 

The  Cambridge  History  of  English  Literature. 

Jusserand’s  Literary  History  of  the  English  People. 

Saintsbury’s  History  of  English  Prosody. 

Courthope’s  History  of  English  Poetry. 

The  Dictionary  of  National  Biography . 

The  following  histories  of  foreign  literatures  may  be  profitably  consulted: 

Garnett’s  History  of  Italian  Literature. 

Dowden’s  History  of  French  Literature. 

Wright’s  History  of  French  Literature. 

Faguet’s  Literary  History  of  France. 

Robertson’s  History  of  German  Literature . 

Fitzmaurice-Kelly’s  Spanish  Literature. 

Gilbert  Murray's  Ancient  Greek  Literature. 

J.  W.  Mackail’s  Latin  Literature. 

-For  the  Anglo-Saxon  and  Middle  English  period  see  especially: 

Ten  Brink’s  History  of  English  Literature. 

Stopford  Brooke’s  English  Literature  from  the  Beginning  to  the  Norman  Conquest. 
Schofield’s  English  Literature  from  the  Norman  Conquest  to  Chaucer. 

W,  P.  Ker’s  Medieval  English  Literature  (Home  University  Library), 
hor  Chaucer  see  Root’s  Poetry  of  Chaucer  (second  edition)  and  Kittredge’s  Chaucer 
and  his  Poetry. 

The  translations  of  Beowulf  are  numerous.  Sec  particularly: 

Gummere’s  The  Oldest  English  Epic  and 
J.  Duncan  Spaeth’s  Old  English  Poetry. 

These  volumes  contain  translations  in  alliterative  verse  of  Beowulf  and  other  Anglo- 
Saxon  poetry. 

For  wider  reading  in  the  Middle  English  period,  see  The  Chief  Middle  English  Poets, 
modernized  and  edited  by  Jessie  L.  Weston. 


Italian:  Dante’s  Divine  Comedy. 

Boccaccio’s  Decameron. 

Petrarch’s  Sonnets. 

German:  Nibelungenlied  (translated  by  A.  W.  Way,  Cam¬ 
bridge,  1911;  translation  by  Margaret  Armour  in  Every¬ 
man’s  Library). 

Norse:  Volsiinga  Saga  (translated  by  William  Morris  in  Cam- 
elot  Series). 


II.  THE  RENAISSANCE’ 

A.  — English  Literature 

(Poetry) 

Lyrics  in  Schelling’s  Elizabethan  Lyric. 

Shakespeare’s  Plays  and  Sonnets. 

Plays  in  Neilson’s  Chief  Elizabethan  Dramatists. 

Plays  in  Manly’s  Specimens  of  Pre-Shakespearean  Drama, 
Vol.  11. 

Spenser’s  Faerie  Queen. 

(Prose) 

More’s  Utopia. 

Sidney’s  Apologie  for  Poetry. 

Bacon’s  Essays. 

Authorized  Version  of  the  Bible. 

B.  — Foreign  Literature 

French:  Selections  from  Rabelais  in  Warner’s  Library  of  the 
W orld’s  Best  Literature. 

Montaigne’s  Essays,  Vol.  III. 

Italian:  Ariosto’s  Orlando  Furioso. 

Cellini’s  Autobiography. 

Tasso’s  Jerusalem  Delivered. 

Spanish:  Cervantes’  Don  Quixote. 

III.  SEVENTEENTH  CENTURY^ 

A. — English  Literature 

(Poetry) 

Lyric  poetry  in  Schelling’s  Seventeenth  Century  Lyrics  (Athe¬ 
naeum  Press  Series). 


®For  tlie  Renaissance  in  general,  see  Pater,  The  Renaissance ;  Edith  Sichel,  The  Renaissance 
(Home  University  Library'):  J-  A.  Symonds’  //  Short  History  of  the  Renaissance. 
For  Enelish  literature  of  the  period,  sec  Saintsbury’s  History  of  Elizabethan  Litera¬ 
ture  (Home  University  Library);  Schelling’s  English  Literature  during  the  Lifetime 
0/  Shakespeare ;  Schelling’s  Elizabethan  Drama;  Krapp’s  Rise  of  English  Literary 
I'rnse. 

‘See  Barrett  Wendell’s  Temper  of  the  Seventeenth  Century  in  English  Literature. 


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Milton’s  Paradise  Lost  and  Samson  Agonistes. 

Selections  from  Dryden  in  the  edition  by  W.  D.  Christie  (Ox¬ 
ford  Press). 

Butler’s  Hudibras. 

(Prose) 

Sir  Thomas  Browne’s  Religio  Medici, 

Milton’s  prose  in  Riverside  Literature  Series  {Tractate  on  Edu¬ 
cation,  Areopagitica,  The  Commo7izvealth) . 

Taylor’s  Holy  Living. 

Walton’s  Complete  Angler. 

Pepys’  Diary  (Everyman’s  Library). 

Dryden’s  Essays  on  Dramatic  Poesy  and  Kindred  Subjects 
(Everyman’s  Library). 

Bunyan’s  Pilgrim’s  Progress. 

Cowley’s  Essays. 


B. — Foreign  Literature 

French:  Corneille’s  Le  Cid. 

Moliere’s  Tartuffe  and  Le  Medecin  malgre  lui. 
Pascal’s  Pensees  (Camelot  Series). 

Racine’s  Athalie. 

Lafontaine’s  Fables. 

La  Rochefoucauld’s  Maxims. 


IV.  EIGHTEENTH  CENTURY^ 

A. — English  Literature 

(Poetry) 

Selections  from  Pope  (see  edition  by  H.  W.  Boynton  in  River¬ 
side  Literature  Series). 

Selections  from  Goldsmith’s  poems  (see  edition  in  Riverside 
Literature  Series). 

Selections  from  Gray’s  poems  (see  edition  in  Riverside  Litera¬ 
ture  Series). 

Selections  from  Burns  in  Athenaeum  Press  Series. 

Selections  from  Cowper  in  Athenaeum  Press  Series. 

Selections  from  Blake  in  Ward’s  English  Poets. 

(Prose) 

Selections  from  the  Essays  of  Addison  and  Steele  in  Scribner’s 
Modern  Student’s  Library. 

Defoe’s  Robinson  Crusoe. 

Swift’s  Gulliver’s  Travels. 

Richardson’s  Clarissa  Harlowe. 

Fielding’s  Tom  Jones. 

“See  Gosse’s  History  of  English  Literature  in  the  Eighteenth  Century;  and 

Professor  Bernbaum’s  anthology,  English  Poets  of  the  Eighteenth  Century. 


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Goldsmith’s  Citizen  of  the  World,  The  Vicar  of  W ake field,  She 
Stoops  to  Conquer. 

Sterne’s  Sentimental  Journey. 

Burke’s  American  Speeches  and  Letters  (Everyman’s  Library). 
Hume’s  Political  Essays  (Camelot  Series). 

Chesterfield’s  Letters. 

Sheridan’s  The  Rivals  and  The  School  for  Scandal. 

Franklin’s  Autobiography. 

Gibbon’s  Decline  and  Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire. 

Johnson’s  Lives  of  Addison,  Dryden,  and  Pope. 

Boswell’s  Life  of  Johnson. 

B. — Foreign  Literature 

French:  Lesage’s  Gil  Bias  (Everyman’s  Library). 

Voltaire’s  Candide. 

Rousseau’s  Nouvelle  Heloise. 

German:  Lessing’s  Laocoon  (Camelot  Series) 

Schiller’s  Wallenstein  (Bohn  Library). 

V.  NINETEENTH  CENTURY® 

A. — English  Literature 

(Poetry) 

Wordsworth  (selections  in  Golden  Treasury  Series). 

Coleridge  (selections  in  Belles-Lettres  Series). 

Keats  (selections  in  Athenaeum  Press  Series). 

Shelley  (selections  in  Athenaeum  Press  Series). 

Byron  (selections  in  Golden  Treasury  Series). 

Scott’s  Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel,  Marmion,  and  Lady  of  the 
Lake. 

Longfellow. 

Lowell. 

Poe. 

Rossetti. 

Swinburne  (selections  in  Belles-Lettres  Series). 

Tennyson  (selections  in  Athenaeum  Press  Series). 

Browning  (selections  in  Belles-Lettres  Series). 

Matthew  Arnold  (selections  in  Belles-Lettres  Series). 

Emerson  (edition  of  essays  and  poems  by  S.  P.  Sherman:  Har- 
court,  Brace  &  Howe). 

Fitzgerald’s  translation  of  the  Rubaiyat. 

Whitman’s  Leaves  of  Grass  (edited  by  S.  P.  Sherman  in  Mod¬ 
ern  Student’s  Library). 

(Prose) 

Jane  Austen’s  Pride  and  Prejudice. 

Southey’s  Life  of  Nelson. 

•See  Sainlsbury’s  History  of  Nineteenth  Century  Literature. 


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De  Quincey’s  Confessions  of  an  English  Opium  Eater. 

Irving’s  Essays  (see  Essays  from  the  Sketch  Book,  Riverside 
Literature  Series). 

Scott’s  Heart  of  Midlothian  and  Kenilworth. 

Cooper’s  Last  of  the  Mohicans. 

Landor’s  Imaginary  Conversations  (see  selections  In  Camelot 
Series). 

Poe’s  Tales. 

Hazlitt  (selections  In  Zeitlln’s  Hazlitt  on  English  Literature) . 
Prescott’s  Conquest  of  Mexico. 

Dickens’  Pickwick  Papers  and  David  Copperfield. 

Carlyle’s  Heroes  and  Hero-Worship  and  Sartor  Resartus. 
Charlotte  Bronte’s  Jane  Eyre. 

Borrow’s  Bible  in  Spain. 

Lockhart’s  Life  of  Scott. 

Thackeray’s  Vanity  Fair,  Pendennis ,  Henry  Esmond. 
Emerson’s  Essays  (edited  by  S.  P.  Sherman:  Harcourt,  Brace 
&  Co.) 

Macaulay’s  Essays  (Everyman’s  Library). 

Thoreau’s  Walden. 

Webster’s  Reply  to  Hayne. 

Holmes’  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast  Table. 

Newman’s  Scope  and  Nature  of  University  Education. 

Motley’s  Rise  of  the  Dutch  Republic. 

Hawthorne’s  Scarlet  Letter  (edited  by  S.  P.  Sherman  in  Mod¬ 
ern  Student’s  Library). 

Huxley  (see  Ada  L.  Snell’s  Autobiography  and  Selections  from 
Lay  Sermons). 

Mill’s  Liberty,  Utilitarianism,  and  Representative  Government 
(Everyman’s  Library). 

Arnold’s  Essays  in  Criticism  and  Culture  and  Anarchy. 
Parkman’s  Siege  of  Pontiac. 

Ruskin’s  Unto  This  Last. 

Lowell’s  Essays  (selections  in  Riverside  Literature  Series). 
Meredith’s  Richard  Feverel 
Pater’s  Renaissance. 

Stevenson’s  Essays. 

Mark  Twain’s  Huckleberry  Finn. 

Hardy’s  Tess  of  the  D’Urbervilles. 

Henry  James’s  Portrait  of  a  Lady. 


B. — Foreign  Literature 

French:  Balzac’s  Pere  Goriot. 

Dumas’  Three  Musketeers. 

Hugo’s  Les  Miserables. 

Sainte-Beuve  (see  translated  selections  in  Camelot  Series). 
Flaubert’s  Madame  Bovary. 


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Anatole  France’s  Crime  of  Sylvestre  Bonnard. 

Selected  stories  of  Maupassant  in  The  Odd  Number  (Har¬ 
per). 

German:  Goethe’s  Faust,  Part  I;  and  Dichtung  und  Wahrheit. 

Heine  (selections  in  Camelot  Series;  see  also  translations 
from  Heine  in  the  Bohn  Library.  The  Romantic  School, 
translated  by  S.  L.  Fleishmann,  New  York,  1862). 

Norwegian:  Ibsen’s  A  Doll’s  House. 

Russian:  Turgenev’s  Smoke;  Fathers  and  Sons. 

Dostoevsky’s  Crime  and  Punishment. 

Tolstoi’s  Anna  Karenina,  The  Cossacks,  and  War  and  Peace. 

Chekhov’s  Tales  (Modern  Library). 


VI.  GREEK  AND  LATIN  LITERATURE 

A.  — Greek  Literature 

(Poetry) 

Homer’s  Iliad  (Lang,  Leaf,  and  Myers’  translation:  Macmillan). 

Homer’s  Odyssey  (translated  by  G.  H.  Palmer,  Riverside  Lit¬ 
erature  Series). 

Aeschylus’  Agamemnon  (translated  by  J.  Conington  in  Greek 
Classics  for  English  Readers). 

Aristophanes’  Frogs  (Everyman’s  Library). 

Euripides’  Alcestis  (translated  by  Gilbert  Murray,  Oxford  Press; 

translation  by  H.  Kynaston  in  Greek  Classics  for  Eng¬ 
lish  Readers). 

Sophocles’  Oedipus  Tyr annus  (translation  by  Gilbert  Murray, 
Oxford  Press). 

Antigone  (Greek  Classics  for  English  Readers). 

(Prose) 

Herodotus’  History,  Book  III  (Loeb  Library). 

Plato’s  Apology,  Crito,  Phaedo  (see  translation  of  the  Apology 
by  Paul  Elmer  More  in  Riverside  Literature  Series). 

Aristotle’s  Poetics  (see  Lane  Cooper’s  translation,  Ginn  &  Co., 
or  the  translation  in  Camelot  Series). 

Plutarch’s  Lives  (Camelot  Series). 

Epictetus’  Moral  Discourses  (Everyman). 

Marcus  Aurelius’  Meditations  (Everyman’s  Library,  or  Cam¬ 
elot  Series). 

B.  — Latin  Literature 

Plautus’  Mencechmi  (Loeb  Classical  Library). 

Cicero’s  De  Officiis  (Everyman’s  Library). 

Lucretius’  On  the  Nature  of  Things  (Oxford  Library  of  Trans¬ 
lations). 


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Horace’s  Odes  and  Satires  (Oxford  Library  of  Translations). 
Virgil’s  Aeneid  (Oxford  Library  of  Translations). 

Ovid’s  Metamorphoses  (Loeb  Library). 


The  attention  of  persons  using  this  book-list  is  called  to  the  following  series, 
including  books  of  selections  and  translations  from  foreign  languages: 

Aldine  Poets  (Bell). 

Athenaeum  Press  Series  (Ginn). 

Belles-Lettres  Series  (Heath). 

Bohn’s  Standard  Libraries  (Harcourt,  Brace  &  Co.). 

Bohn’s  Popular  Libraries  (Harcourt,  Brace  &  Co.). 

Camelot  Series  (Walter  Scott  Co.). 

Chief  Poets  Series  (Houghton,  Mifflin). 

Eclectic  English  Classics  (American  Book  Co.). 

English  Readings  (Holt). 

Everyman’s  Library  (Dutton). 

Golden  Treasury  Series  (Oxford  Press). 

Greek  Classics  for  English  Readers  (Oxford  Press). 

Harper  Translations  (American  Book  Co.). 

Heath’s  English  Classics  (American  Book  Co.). 

Home  Library  (Burt). 

Loeb  Classics  (Putnam). 

Masters  of  Literature  (Bell). 

Masterpieces  of  the  English  Drama  (American  Book  Co.). 

Modem  Student’s  Library  (Scribners). 

Oxford  Editions  of  Standard  Authors  (Oxford  Press). 

Oxford  Library  of  Prose  and  Poetry  (Oxford  Press). 

Riverside  Literature  Series  (Houghton,  Mifflin). 

Standard  English  Classics  (Ginn  &  Co.). 

Translations  from  Greek  Literature  by  Gilbert  Murray  (Oxford  Press). 
Universal  Library  (Routledge). 

Ward’s  English  Poets  (Macmillan). 

Modern  Library  (Boni  and  Liveright). 


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SCHEDULE  OF  REiJ)ING 
APRIL  AND  MAY 


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REQUIRED 

To  be 

completed  Henry  James 
April  12 

Daisy  Miller 
-"-The  American  (Begun) 


April  19  The  American  (Finished) 

Vol.  XII.  The  Turn  of 
the  Sc  rev/. 


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Portrait  of  a  Lady. 


May  3 

XIII.  Madame  de  Mauves 
-jc-  V/hat  Maisie  Knew 


B 

SUGGESTED 

Herjry  James 

NOVELS  The  Europeans 

Roderick  Hudson 
The  Princess  Cassamassima 

2  vols, 

'PALES  Vol.  XVIII  Pandora 

XIV.  Lady  Barbarina 
The  Pension  Beaurepas 

XII.  The  Liar 

XV.  The  Figure  in  the  Car¬ 
pet 

XVI.  The  Author  of  Beltraf^ 

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Four  Meetings 

ETTERS  Two  volumes  Edited  by 
Percy  Lubbock 


[CRITICISM  Views  and  Reviev/s 


Notes  on  Novelists 
Gustave  Flaubert 


/p.W.  Beach  The  Method  of  Henry 

James 

Brownell  V/,C.  Henry  James  in 

American  Prose  Masters 

Percy  Lubbock  The  Graft  of  Fiction 


EditU.  l.'Tharton 

NOVELS  The  Custom  of  the  Country 
Summer 

The  Fimiit  of  the  Tree 


Edith  ViTiarton 


May  10  The  House  of  Mirth 


17  The  Age  of  Innocence 


SHORT  NOVELS  Madame  de  Treymes 

The  Old  Maid 


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Ethan  Frome 


SHORT  STORIES  Xingu  and  Other 

Stories 

CRITICISM  The  V/riting  of  Fiction 


Papers  (800  words) 

April  19  May  3 

Term  paper  (2000  v/ords ) 
May  17. 

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